A new plant making iPhones in southern India has started production and another will begin shipments in May, as Apple looks to boost manufacturing beyond its tariff-hit main manufacturing hub, China,

The new Tata facility in Hosur, southern India, has begun rolling out older iPhone models on a single production line. Meanwhile, Foxconn’s upcoming $2.6 billion factory in Karnataka’s capital is expected to start trial production of the iPhone 16 series shortly,

The current iPhone manufacturing capacity in India with headroom for increasing local consumption and exports; investments lined-up by Apple and its partners Foxconn as well as Tata Electronics to add more production capacity;